Improvement in seeding-machines



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A SEEDING-MACHINE. y No. 177.792. Patented May 23,1876,

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IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,792, dated May 23, 1876; application tiled February 3, 1876.

a peculiar arrangement of, an eccentric for holding the teeth up when raised. This device is placed upon the rear of a machine, and over the beams' to which the teeth are attached. Y

Figure l is aview ofthe invention with a part of same broken away, so as to show the it Works 5 and Fig. 2, a sectional view ofthe same.

A is a crooked arm attached to a seeding machine; B, a lever fulcrumed on an eccentric bed on the cnd of arm A, which lever is operated ,tol raise and lower the beams which hold the teeth; C, an eccentric head or ring on the end ot' arm A, with a raised ledge With corragations on its inside; D, an eccentric with corrugations on it, with a groove fitting on `over the ledge on'eccentric head, with a pin passing through the eccentric and the lever;

`E, a cross-bar, to which the beams which carry This machine is operated as follows: Whenever it is desired to raise the teeth out of the ground, bear down on the end ot' lever B, and that will raise the beams, and the eccentric will hold the lever in any direction required; and when it is necessary to lower the teeth, take hold of Wire F and pull, and that will relieve the eccentric and the teeth will fall.

`I claim as new and as my inventionl. In a seeding-machine, the lever B, eccentric head or ring C, inv combination with the eccentric D, substantially as described.

2. Arm A, lever B, head or ring` C, and eccentric D, in combination with Wire F, substantially as described.

JIRAH B. BIRGE. 'Witnessesz JAS. A. PARKHURs'r,

EDWARD SAEGER. 

